Our History: Flapper era author called Shreveport home

2:17 AM,
Dec. 27, 2013

Margery Land May, circa 1920.

Written by

John Andrew Prime
Columnist

One of Shreveport's great tragic literary figures is hardly remembered today. But in the 1920s and the early 1930s, Margery Land May caused a buzz in the city's social and literary/artistic circles much like a Cole Vosbury or a Bill Joyce today - but with added mystique.

May was born Jan. 14, 1897, in New Orleans. She was a member of the Land family, socially prominent here and in New Orleans. Her grandfather was Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Alfred Land, and several great uncles were noted judges. She moved with her mother, divorcee Florence Lister Land May, to California and New York. But at ...